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As I am trying to stay woke , I need to come up with a replacement for the expression "firing on all cylinders." They tell me ICE will go the way of the VCR so I have to keep my vernacular up to date. Firing on all electrodes? But then there is no fire.
The term will still stay the same. It will be like how we still "roll" down the windows and "turn" up the volume on the radio. The only thing that might change is that we probably won't have to "crank" the starter anymore.
The term will still stay the same. It will be like how we still "roll" down the windows and "turn" up the volume on the radio. The only thing that might change is that we probably won't have to "crank" the starter anymore.
Yea, or how save icons for programs still often look like floppy disks and now a young person can see these and think it's so cool that you 3D printed the save icon.
The term will still stay the same. It will be like how we still "roll" down the windows and "turn" up the volume on the radio. The only thing that might change is that we probably won't have to "crank" the starter anymore.
you only think this because you are in a transition position where you have experienced old and new. we dont say "roll" down the window or "turn" up the volume anymore.
old person phrases get phased out and dont necessarily need to be replaced with a new phrase using the technology that has replaced it.
The term will still stay the same. It will be like how we still "roll" down the windows and "turn" up the volume on the radio. The only thing that might change is that we probably won't have to "crank" the starter anymore.
The term will still stay the same. It will be like how we still "roll" down the windows and "turn" up the volume on the radio. The only thing that might change is that we probably won't have to "crank" the starter anymore.
Even the phrase "cranking" the engine, I believe, originates from the times when there was a physical starter crank attached at the front of the engine connecting to the crankshaft that a person would need to vigorously rotate by hand to get the car started. Later designs used an electric motor with a pinion gear interfacing to the ring gear on the flywheel (i.e., crankless "cranking"), but people still talk about cranking the engine today, and the earth hasn't fallen off its axis.
you only think this because you are in a transition position where you have experienced old and new. we dont say "roll" down the window or "turn" up the volume anymore.
old person phrases get phased out and dont necessarily need to be replaced with a new phrase using the technology that has replaced it.
I still hear many people say those things, and I'm sure I do too without realizing it. We repeat what we grow up hearing our parents say.
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